Episode 16: Being in Community & Barriers to Connecting

Episode Notes We don't exist in a vacuum. Our actions have consequences and affect each other. Community is about deepening our connections as humans, developing trust, and creating safety for each other. In this episode, Sasha Pantzialas and Tanuja Ramchal use a systems lens to explore what it means to build real connections, including with people who are different from us, and examine the barriers to creating community in an individualistic culture. Here's what's covered: ·What it means to be in community and why it requires the willingness to be uncomfortable How our individualistic programming leads to transactional and conditional interactions The ways in which creating community based on sameness/labels can lead to spaces which promote conformity and lack diversity How fitting in in order to feel like you're part of a community can cause you to censor yourself and keep you from showing up authentically in your career The importance of community in dismantling systems of oppression and what that work looks like